Car-fender.



W. DICKBNSON.

OAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1912.

1,067,006, Patented July 8,1913.

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BY g// I ATTORN EY WITNESSES w. DIOKENSON.

GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED 11:11:29, 1912.

1,067,006, Patented July 8, 1913.

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ATTORNEY UNTTED t%TATE% PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM DICKENSON, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOHENRY J. DRESSEL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

CAR-FENDER.

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To all whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, l VILLIAM DicKnNsoN, a, citizen oi the UnitedStates, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State oilLouisiana, have invented a new and useful. Car-Fender, of which thefollowing is a spccil'itaition.

The invention relates to improvements in car :lcndcrs.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction oil?car fenders, and to provide a simple, practical and ellicient car tenderof great strength and durability, designed for use on street @ars andadapted to be supported normally above the track clear of the rails andthe road bed, and capable of being instantly dropped to the track and ofpicking up a person in any position whether standing, sitting or lyingdown and of effectually preventing an object on the track from gettingunder it and being run over by the car on which the fender is mounted.

A further object of the invention is to provide a tripping devicearranged in close proximity to the reverse lever of the controller ot' acar, and capable of being operated by a motor-man without interferingwith his control of a car in stopping the same and without causingeither loss of time or confusion in dropping the tender.

The invention also has for its object to provide a tender of thischaracter, adapted to be folded out of the way against the dash board ofa car so that it will not interfere with the coupling of the car or takeup any extra room in a car barn.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in theconstruction and novel coi'nbination of parts hereinafter :l'ullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out inthe claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes inthe form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within thescope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from thespiritor sacriticing any of the advantages of the inveir tion.

In the drawin s:Figure 1 a perspective view of a car fender, constructedin accordance with this invention, and shown applied to a car, thetender being arranged in its normal position. Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the same, the tender being shown Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 29, 1912.

Patcntcd July 8, 1 913.

Serial No. 706,716.

folded in full lines and the normal and drop positions being illustratedin dotted lines. Fig. 3- is a transverse sectional view, illustratingthe tripping mechanism for dropping the tender.

Like numerals of reference designate correspomling parts in all thefigures of the drawin In the acconipanying drawings in which isillustrated the prelerrcd embodiment of the invtaition, the car tendercomprises in its construction a bottom horizontal portion or member 1,and an approximately vertical back portion or rear member 2, which 0xtends upwardly from the bottom member 1 at the back thereof. The bottomportion or member 1 consists preferably oi? netting 3, or other suitablematerial stretched on a rectangular frame 1-, constructed of rod metaleither tubular or solid and composed of side bars and front and riartransverse connecting bars and preferably braced at opposite sides bylongitudinal bars 5, constructed oi flat metal and secured to the frontand rear transverse rods or bars and provided adjacent to their frontends with depending curved bends ('5, adapted to run on the road bedwhile the front of the bottom frame 4 oi? the fender rests upon therails.

The bottom member of the fender is provided at the back withapproxin'iately L- shaped arms 7 extending rcarunirdly from the sidebars oi the frame t and upwardly in spaced relation with the rearupright member 2 ot' the tender and provided at their upper ends witheyes 8 through which pass pivots 9, projecting laterally 'lrom lugs 10,which depend from the underside oi. the car. The upper tcrn'linals oithe arms are retained on the horizontal pivots 9 by cotter pins 11, orother suitable 'lastening means, and the said arms may be pivotally hungfrom the car in any other preferred manner.

The upwardly extending pm-tions oi? the Lshaped. arms 7 are arrangedbetween spaced jaws '12, consisting of projecting lugs or cars andextending tl orwardly from the bottoms of the brackets '13 and forminghorizontal guides, and adapted to brace the arms against lateralmovement. The brackets '13 consist of vertical 'lront portions andinclined rear portions or braces and are snitably secured at the top tothe underside of the car. The arms 7 are normally supported at the frontouter portion-ofthe space between the forward-1y projectingporbifurcated, are connected by suitable pivots 18 to oppositehorizontal arms 19- of a vertical operating shaft 20. "The verticalshaft extends through the platform 21 of the car andis provided with acollar 22 resting upon 'thebottom of'the car and supporting the shaftat'the proper elevation. The upper portion of the shaft is mounted in asuitable beai ing 23, preferably consisting of a smetallic strapbentor'bowed at aniintermediate point to brace theshaf-t and riveted orotherwise secured to the inner face of the dash board 24: of the car.The upper end of the shaft .20 is equipped with asuitable handle 25,located adjacent, to the reverse- ;lever;26 of the. controller 27 and.adapted to be swung rearwardly or in the 'dlrection of the motormanforrotating the operating shaft 22 to withdraw the pins Ltand permit.the"forwar'dly extending bottom member to;

dropfrom a horizontal position to the in-' cline'd position illustratedin dotted lines in EFig. 2 of the drawings, and rest-upon the track.When a motorman operating a car is. on the eve of an accident, hisfirst-impulse after cutting off the power and applying the brake istoreverse'.-his car. by pnlling" back the reverse lever 26 on the This hedoes controller, and as the handle 25 of the op-1 eratingshaft isplacedjust ahead .of the re- -verselever at one side'thereof, itican beinstantly, pulled back with; the same motion ofthe' hand as isnse'd inpulling back the re- -verselever. WVhen inits dropped inclined' positionthe'fender is adapted to take up :a?

personor other object and will effectually prevent the samefrom gettingunder it and Ebeing; run over by the car. The fender may be readily,returned to its normal horizontal position by swinging it forwardly andup wardly and replaclng the plns ln'the per-{ fforationsl5 oftheprojectingportions or;

aws of the brackets.

'The rnpwaridly extending .rearmember, which constitutesthe baclrof thefender,

. consists of. nettingQS.stretched, on a, rectan ;.gular frame29,lconstrnctedi of rod metal .or other. suitable materialandcomposed ofapproximately vertical side barsarid r upper and lower horizontalconnecting bars or rods. .ThGaSlClG bars. orrrods arepivoted attheirlower endsiby bolts '30, or other suit- ;able ffasteningfdevicesito. the frame't atthe bZLCkl thereof, and they are; provided at theirupper ends with arms 31 curved upwardly -a-nd-rearwardly and connectedby bolts 32 or other suitable pivots to forwardly pro- Ject-1ngears38wofsleeves 34, which are slidably mounted on side gu des 35. The sideguides 35 consist of slightly inclined rods spaced from the dash board24 of the car .;and secured at their upper and lowenends to ,thelatterbyattaching plates 36 and 37. The guide rods are provided at theirlower ends with short arms 38, which forwardly offset thelo-wer portionsofthe guide rods from the plane. of thezupper ends thereof. "The fenderis-adapted to be folded upwardly and when the bottom' member -1 isswung'upwardly, therear member 2Isl'1 des upwardly on the guide rods-andthe--members 1 and 2 occupy .a position above the car couplingand donot interfere-with the coupling of the car to another.car-ortake up anyadditional roonrin a car barn. The caris equipped with a hook39pivoted-adjacent to the top of the dash and arranged =to engage the freefront edge of;the lower member-"'1 o'f theffender. iThehook-"forms agravity latch for'retaining the "fendenin I its folded position.The'fenderis not; pro

vided with ropes, chains or springs liable to .get out of order.

WVhatis claimed is 1. The combination with :a carprovided with a pair ofspacedprojecting-lugs, a transverse pin piercing thelugs :at-a pointintermediate of.the ends .of the-same'and extending across the spacebetween the said lugs, a fenderpivotally =mounted on-the carabovethelhorizontal'plane of thelugs and normally resting againstand-supported by the said pin in' the outer or front-portion of thespace between the lugs, and means fOI'WVltllCllibWlIlgltlle13111 topermit v, the fender to swing rearward ly into the innerportion of thespace betweenrthe said lugs to drop the outer portion of the fender.

2."The combination of projecting jaws arranged in pairs and providedwithalined openings, the members of saidpairsb'eing spaced apart toprovide intervening spaces, ,PlIlS normally-arranged 1n;the openings andextending across the sald spaces at 1a po1nt intermediate of the endsthereof,-a pivot-ally .mounted'fender having arms extending-between thejaws andsupported inaforward position'bvthe said pins'to maintain "thefender'normally elevated, avertical operatshaft provided at its upperend'with operating means and having oppositely disposed arms at thelower portion, androds connecting the arms of'the shaft with"? the pins,said shaft being adaptedto beturned to withdraw the; pins and permitthe" fender to drop.

'3. The combination with a car, ofv brack- .ets depending from the carand having forwardly. projecting jaws forming intervenlng spaces openatthe outer ends of the jaws, the latter being also provided withtransversely alined openings, pins normally arranged in the openings ofthe jaws and extending across the said spaces at points intermediate ofthe ends of the said jaws, a tender provided at the back withapproximately L-shaned arms pivotally hung at their upper ends from thecar and extending into the spaces between the jaws and supported in aforward position by the said pins, and operating means mounted on thecar and connected with the pins for withdrawing the same to permit thetender to drop.

L-The combination with a car, of upright guide rods arranged at thefront of the car at opposite sides of the dash board, brackets dependingfrom the car, removable pins mounted in the brackets, a tender composedof a bottom member provided at the back with arms extending rearwardlyand upwardly and pivotally hung from the car in advance of the bracketsand supported in a forward position by the said pins to hold the bottommember normally in an elevated position, a rear upwardly extendingmember pivotally connected at opposite sides with the bottom member atthe back thereof and provided at the top with arms pivotally andslidably connected with the guide rods, and operating means mounted onthe car -for withdrawing the pins to permit the fender to drop.

The combination with a car, of guide rods secured to the front oi. thecar at opposite sides thereof and inclined upwardly and rearwardly,sleeves slidable on the guide rods, a fender composed of a bottom memberprovided at the back with arms pivotally hung from the car, and a rearup- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

